I’ve explained how I feel about the Twitter church experiment. Over the weekend, The New York Times added to the discussion, saying plenty of others are uncomfortable with the intersection of social media and church services.

The bad economy has had mixed effect on churches and houses of worship. It’s been good for some, filling the pews with those who forget about God when times are good, but it’s also led to massive losses by religious organizations and institutions and even led some houses of worship...

Bible studies are a common feature of Christian life. They supplement what is learned each week in church and facilitate closer communal bonds. And they typically meet in a member’s home. A Bible study is an informal gathering, like a book club or a weekly poker game. It’s not the...

The Rev. Rick Warren, who received a lot of negative attention when President-elect Barack Obama asked him to offer the prayer at his inauguration tomorrow, was back in the limelight over the weekend after offering worship space to conservative Anglican churches that have broken from...

When I first saw the headline—Palin’s Pastor Urges Flock to Pray for the Press—I thought: Well, prayer is meant to comfort the afflicted and the press do exist to afflict the comfortable, but has Pastor Larry Kroon really had it so bad over the past week that he needs God to reign in...

“Trusted to build a museum to his friend’s lifework, a pastor is accused of drowning the farmer.” That was the subhead of an article in today’sLos Angeles Times. Without being too macabre or full of bloodlust, its safe to say that story sounded really intriguing. Money, ministers,...

I seem to have missed this ongoing story of churches in big cities being sold and converted into luxury condos. As far as I know, this phenomenon has not made its way to Los Angeles, where condo conversions were once going bonkers and have shriveled since the declines of the economy...

While congregants at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church watched a youth performance Sunday, a gunman stormed in and unloaded a shotgun on the crowd. He killed one man before being tackled and stripped of his gun. Few details were known about the shooter. Here is what...

My old college pastor, Rhett Smith, whose final day on the job was Friday the 13th, pointed me last week to an interesting discussion about how changes in the ways we interact socially are changing the nature of pastoring. (Rhett should know: He spoke last year at GodblogCon about...

I thought about mentioning a personal story Monday when I talked about the Problem of Pain, It was a recent event, with ongoing recovery, that has both shaken my wife and I emotionally and encouraged us spiritually.

Anybody who has ever been in a Bible study with a DVD component featuring your very own pastor can relate with the comedy in this Small Group Short, starring, not coincidentally, two of the guys in my small group, and taking a few digs at our good-humored and often casually dressed pastor, Mark Brewer.

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